[RHCE] Redhat 9 Server Recovery - HELP

[Navneet Choudhary]

Hi folks,

I am running redhat linux  9(Kernel 2.4.20-8)  server on Intel P4 system,with Western Digital 40GB Hard Disk(WD400EB-00CPF0, ATA DISK).

This server is acting as Firewall & Gateway.
Running squid & vsftp for local users.

When i power on my system this morning , it shows below message (and as per message i run "fsck /dev/hda" without any argument/switch.

For your information i have added "fdisk -l" & "df -h" (All output prior to system CRASH).



Checking root filesystem
/============================= 49%
/:
Inodes that were part of  a corrupted orphan linked list found.

/:UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
                        (i.e without –a or –p options)

                                                                                         [FAILED]             
*** An error occurred during the file system check.
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):

(Repair filesystem)1# fsck /dev/hda
fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
Couldn’t find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks

Fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/had
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem.
 If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem ( and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
     e2fsck –b 8193 <device>


#fdisk –l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40017485312 bytes
255 heads, 63 sector/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device     Boot  Start   End          Block       Id    System
/dev/hda1   *           1      13          104391    83   Linux
/dev/hda2              14  2563    20482875      83   Linux
/dev/hda3          2564   2628       522112+    82   Linux swap
/dev/hda4          2629   4865     17968702+    f    Win95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/hda5          2629   4865     17968671     83   Linux


[root at localhost root]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5              17G  7.8G  8.4G  49% /
/dev/hda1              99M  5.0M   89M   6% /boot
/dev/hda2              20G   17G  1.6G  92% /home
none                  121M     0  121M   0% /dev/shm



Any suggestion how to recover damaged filesystem (here it’s EXT3)?.

Thanks in advance.


Regards,
Navneet Choudhary